Full Text of HB0209 96th General Assembly
HB0209ham001 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Rep. Esther Golar
Filed: 3/26/2009
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 209
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 209 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 27A-9 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/27A-9)
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| Sec. 27A-9. Term of charter; renewal.
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| (a) A charter may be granted for a period not less than 5 | 9 |
| and not
more than
10
school years. A charter may be renewed in | 10 |
| incremental periods not to exceed
5
school years.
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| (b) A charter school renewal proposal submitted to the
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| local school board or State Board, as the chartering entity,
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| shall contain:
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| (1) A report on the progress of the charter school in | 15 |
| achieving the goals,
objectives, pupil performance | 16 |
| standards, content standards, and other terms of
the |
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| initial approved charter proposal; and
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| (2) A financial statement that discloses the costs of | 3 |
| administration,
instruction, and other spending categories | 4 |
| for the charter school that is
understandable to the | 5 |
| general public and that will allow comparison of those
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| costs to other schools or other comparable organizations, | 7 |
| in a format required
by the State Board.
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| (c) A charter may be revoked
or not renewed if the local | 9 |
| school board or State Board, as the chartering
entity,
clearly | 10 |
| demonstrates that the
charter school did any of the
following, | 11 |
| or otherwise failed to comply with the requirements of this | 12 |
| law:
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| (1) Committed a material violation of any of the | 14 |
| conditions, standards, or
procedures set forth in the | 15 |
| charter.
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| (2) Failed to meet or make reasonable progress toward | 17 |
| achievement of the
content standards or pupil performance | 18 |
| standards identified in the charter.
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| (3) Failed to meet generally accepted standards of | 20 |
| fiscal management.
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| (4) Violated any provision of law from which the | 22 |
| charter school was not
exempted.
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| In the case of revocation, the local school board or State | 24 |
| Board, as the chartering entity, shall notify the charter | 25 |
| school in writing of the reason why the charter is subject to | 26 |
| revocation. The charter school shall submit a written plan to |
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| the local school board or State Board, whichever is applicable, | 2 |
| to rectify the problem. The plan shall include a timeline for | 3 |
| implementation, which shall not exceed 2 years or the date of | 4 |
| the charter's expiration, whichever is earlier. If the local | 5 |
| school board or State Board, as the chartering entity, finds | 6 |
| that the charter school has failed to implement the plan of | 7 |
| remediation and adhere to the timeline, then the chartering | 8 |
| entity shall revoke the charter. Except in situations of an | 9 |
| emergency where the health, safety, or education of the charter | 10 |
| school's students is at risk, the revocation shall take place | 11 |
| at the end of a school year. Nothing in this amendatory Act of | 12 |
| the 96th General Assembly shall be construed to prohibit an | 13 |
| implementation timetable that is less than 2 years in duration. | 14 |
| (d) (Blank).
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| (e) Notice of a local school board's decision to
deny, | 16 |
| revoke or not to
renew a charter shall be provided to the State | 17 |
| Board.
The State Board may reverse a local board's
decision
if | 18 |
| the State Board finds
that the charter school or charter school | 19 |
| proposal (i) is in compliance with
this Article, and (ii) is in | 20 |
| the best interests of the students it is designed
to serve.
The | 21 |
| State Board may condition the granting of an appeal on the | 22 |
| acceptance by
the charter school of funding in an amount less | 23 |
| than that requested in the
proposal submitted to the local | 24 |
| school board.
Final decisions of the State Board shall be | 25 |
| subject
to judicial review under the Administrative Review Law.
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| (f) Notwithstanding other provisions of this Article, if |
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| the
State Board
on appeal reverses a local board's decision
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| if a charter school is
approved by referendum,
the
State Board | 3 |
| shall act as the
authorized chartering entity for the charter | 4 |
| school.
The State Board shall
approve and certify the charter | 5 |
| and shall perform all functions
under this
Article otherwise | 6 |
| performed by the local school
board. The State Board shall
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| report the aggregate number of charter school pupils resident | 8 |
| in a school
district to that district
and shall notify the | 9 |
| district
of the amount of
funding to be paid by the State Board | 10 |
| to the charter school enrolling such
students.
The State Board | 11 |
| shall require the
charter school to maintain accurate records | 12 |
| of daily attendance that shall be
deemed sufficient to file | 13 |
| claims under Section 18-8.05 notwithstanding any
other | 14 |
| requirements of that Section regarding hours of instruction and | 15 |
| teacher
certification.
The State Board shall withhold from | 16 |
| funds otherwise due the district
the funds authorized by this | 17 |
| Article to be paid to the charter school and shall
pay such | 18 |
| amounts to the charter school.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-96, eff. 7-9-99; 91-407, eff. 8-3-99;
92-16, | 20 |
| eff. 6-28-01.)
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| Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding | 22 |
| Section 8.33 as follows: | 23 |
| (30 ILCS 805/8.33 new) | 24 |
| Sec. 8.33. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 |
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| of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the | 2 |
| implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of | 3 |
| the 96th General Assembly. ".
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